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Selections for Ballinrobe – May 25th 2026
4.30: DADDY LONG LEGS (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.05: DE JOUR EN JOUR (KEITH DONOGHUE/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 5.35: JACOVEC CAVERN – EW – (RICHIE CONDON (5)/PAUL HENNESSY) 6.05: SMOOTH TOM – EW – (CIAN QUIRKE/ANDY SLATTERY) 6.35: CONYERS HILL – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (7)/PAUL NOLAN) 7.05: SUPREME JET (PHILIP ENRIGHT/OLIVER MCKIERNAN) 7.35: A STORIN (ALAN RYAN…
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Selections for Curragh – May 24th 2026
1.45: SUN GODESS (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 2.15: GREAT BARRIER REEF (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 2.45: MAYFLOWER – EW – (JACK KEARNEY (3)/STEPHEN THORNE) 3.20: CITY OF MEMPHIS (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 3.55: BAY CITY ROLLER – EW – (OISIN MURPHY/GEORGE SCOTT, IN GB) 4.30: AMERICAN QUEEN – EW – (BILLY LOUGHNANE/RICHARD HUGHES, IN GB) 5.05: PRETTY OMAGH…
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It’s the ones that blindside you that sting the most
MEATH…1-24 CORK…0-30 Reference to being blindsided is not meant in terms of the overall result. These teams are very evenly matched. With never more than a kick of the ball between them. So it was again, with the irony being that John Cleary’s crew didn’t need a goal to pull off a win that –…
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Selections for Curragh – May 23rd 2026
1.20: SWITCHING SIDES – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSIE HARRINGTON) 1.55: NYRA (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.30: IRON FIST – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSIE HARRINGTON) 3.05: MONTAASSIB – EW – (BILLY LOUGHNANE/WILLIAM HAGGAS, IN GB) 3.40: GSTAAD (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 4.15: AMADEUS MOZART – EW – (RONAN WHELAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 4.50: ZENFORD – EW – (RORY MULLIGAN…
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There’s no need for such cruelty
MEATH… 1-16 KILDARE… 2-13 * *Kildare win 5-3 on penalties There’s no need for such cruelty to be used to decide games of such magnitude on penalties. Another case of the GAA hierarchy bowing to the whingers. ‘Fixing’ something that wasn’t even broken. Right here, right now, let it be made abundantly clear, these misgivings…
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Royals shuffle the deck in search of Cork conquest
After what feels like the longest five weeks in history – to me at least – Meath’s senior footballers return to championship action with a clean slate tomorrow evening in the first round of the All Ireland SFC when the latest chapter in the current incarnation of the age old rivalry will play out in…
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Hoping to reunite with a familiar friend
Trevor Giles and his Meath Minor side will be aiming for a reunion with a familiar friend at Laois Hire O’Moore Park in Portlaoise this evening (7:35 throw in) when they tackle a rematch against Kildare in the Electric Ireland Leinster MFC Final. Should they manage to turn around the result of their initial encounter…
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Selections for Downpatrick – May 22nd 2026
5.20: LE QUESTIONNAIRE (DANNY GILLIGAN/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.52: I’LL BE HANDY – EW – (JAMES SMITH (5)/MATT SMITH) 6.29: ANNARUBYROSE – EW – (JAMES SMITH (5)/IAN DONOGHUE) 7.00: WHISPERING WILLOW (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 7.30: WEST OF IDAHO (BARRY O’NEILL/DAVID CHRISTIE) 8.00: CAUSE FOR COMMENT (PADDY MULLINS/SONNY CAREY) 8.30: BROOTALLY – EW – (DAIRE MCGILL (7)/PETER BUCHANNAN)
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From the sublime to the ridiculous to the downright dodgy
What’s probably a scary number of years ago now, I keyboarded a piece pertaining to the beginning of a Premier League season. The title over the post was Almost Time To Take Down The Tent. The implication being that the Transfer Window in the lead up to the big kick off resembled a circus. Much…
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Selections for Limerick – May 21st 2026
4.43: STILY – EW – (SEAN O’KEEFFE/MICHAEL J. MCDONOGH) 5.18: AFFINITY ROCK (DANNY GILLIGAN/CIAN COLLINS) 5.48: OCASTLE DES MOTTES (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 6.18: GLITZ AND GLAMOUR – EW – (HARRY COBDEN/ERIC MCNAMARA) 6.48: GAME ON – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/NOEL MEADE) 7.18: ANOTHER CHALLENGE – EW – (PHILIP ENRIGHT/OLIVER MCKIERNAN) 7.48: UPTAURINTOP – EW –…
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